It took me long enough, but we've finally managed to get the entire available catalog of Borbetomagus releases on Agaric Records catalog in stock at the 'Blast. And for anyone looking for thee most brutal free jazz band on the planet, look no further: Borbetomagus, a Celtic word for "City Of Worms", three men locking saxophones and guitar noise together into a blast of monstrous improvised skree that takes the feeling behind the aggressive free playing of Ayler and Brotzmann and amplifies it into total fucking napalm. The core trio of sax players Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich and electric guitarist Donald Miller have been consistently bulldozing eardrums with their incendiary "snuff jazz" since the late 70's, and no one in the avant jazz/improv underground has ever come close to achieving the sheer cyclonic power of Borbetomagus. A host of their recording have been reissued recently, many with liner notes, and we've snagged everything that we could

from the guys so there's absolutely no excuse for any of you into brutal noise and improv to not fill out your Borbeto collection.

Don't let the kitschy cover fool you - Experience The Magic is the harshest album in the Borbeto catalog. This early 90's live album from the Borbeto trio was recorded over two different performances at CBGB's in New York City in 1993, and the two half-hour long tracks ("Bathed In The Blood Of The Lamb" and "Grunion Run") are total blowouts. What makes this recording so extreme is the mix...whoever captured these guys on tape decided to keep the trebleand midrange levels way in the red, so Dietrich and Sauter's blasts of sax sound even more searing and white-hot than usual. And their energy is through the roof on both of these cuts...blasting primal skronk heard through a haze of white noise, amplified and vicious. Jesus, the end of "Bathed" reaches levels of overload that actually start to resemble the harshest Japanese noise jams. These guys are without a doubt the only "jazz" group that could even garner such a comparison. Brutal!